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Loopmasters has announced the Wave Alchemy Spring Sale, a limited time promotion for selected sample libraries.

Wave Alchemy Spring Sale titles:

• Tech House and Minimal – A true exploration into ground breaking Tech Minimalism, chunky house beats, minimal bass grooves, twisted synth lines, and a huge selection of original drum hits, sound effects and multi-sampled analogue synths!
• Deep Tech And Progressive – After countless hours of creative sound design and technical wizardry we are extremely proud to present our finest library to date – Deep Tech & Progressive, an intricate fusion of hypnotic synth lines, deep progressive grooves and driving tech house beats…
• Wave Alchemy Electro Collection – Originally designed as accompanying sample packs, Electro House Underground and Electro House Progressions offer an extensive and ultimately complete collection of drum loops, synth hits and royalty free sound effects samples ideal for top-flight electro house and progressive production.
• SFX Collection Vol 1 – Wave Alchemy’s third release, SFX Collection 01, offers over 1.5GB of 24-bit 100% royalty free sound effects samples, created using the very finest of vintage and new age electronic equipment.

These selected Wave Alchemy libraries are available from Loopmasters at a 15% discount until May 13^th, 2011.

More information: Wave Alchemy Spring Sale

Wave Alchemy has announced the release of Syncussion Drums, a collection of electronic drum samples from the extremely rare Pearl Syncussion SY-1 analogue drum synthesizer.

With careful programming the Syncussion SY-1 is capable of producing a huge palette of percussive sounds, powerful kicks and experimental sound effects which have a unique vintage character inherent to its quirky design and seriously raw sounding oscillators.

Wave Alchemy Syncussion Drums supplies forward-thinking producers with a unique collection of vintage electronic drum samples combined with up-to-the-minute processed drum hits to inspire your latest music productions, whatever style or genre of music you produce.

Syncussion Drums features

• 1885 24-bit 100% royalty free electronic drum hits!
• 839 drum sounds recorded to 1/4” tape via a Studer A80 Mk1 tape machine.
• 162 unprocessed kick drum samples including cone-melting subs, snappy clicks and enormous bass drums.
• 74 beautifully processed kick drum sounds making use of our extensive outboard collection.
• 16 creatively layered kicks and huge subs.
• 148 carefully recorded round robin sample variations.
• 158 percussion hits and wired tones.
• 134 blips, glitch and creative noise hits.
• 71 gritty SP-12 drum sounds including twisted percussion and lo-fi hits.
• 95 tom samples covering deep to disco and everything in between.
• 48 stereo and searing SFX sounds.
• 104 additional layered snare drum and hi hat samples. Snares and hats are not the Syncussion’s strongest point so we decided to include a huge bonus collection of punchy snares and silky hats which make use our full gear list.
• 63 ‘ready to play’ and carefully mapped drum kits including sampler patches for Battery, Kontakt, NI Maschine, Reason NNXT, Halion, EXS24 and SFZ.
• Ableton Live 7+ Pack including 57 Drum Racks and 63 Sampler Instruments.
• 6 multi patch arrays, each offered in a variety of key labelled pitches and designed to be played as musical patches.
• 6 Page Syncussion Drums Booklet about the history of the instrument and the making of the library. Download Here.

Syncussion Drums is available to purchase for £19.95 GBP.

Purchase Syncussion Drums during April 2011 and receive a free drum sample pack which includes 318 Roland TR-808 drum sounds which have been recorded to analogue tape at 3 different saturation levels!

More information: Wave Alchemy / Syncussion Drums

Just a little reminder that you only have 3 days left to join the Moving music production contest.

To be honest I am not entirely sure if I will have internet access to check the latest entries in the next few days as I will be moving my internet/TV gear over to my new home over the weekend. Hopefully my provider has set thing up like they said they would… yeah…

Anyway, if you still would like a chance to win some fabulous prizes from DNR Collaborative, CableGuys, Synapse Audio, Wave Alchemy, and Soniccouture, then get started now.

Deadline is April 3^rd, 11.59pm CET!

More information at the contest page.

As I am preparing to relocate my family to a new house this March, the subject of “moving” has been on my mind a lot lately.

Moving is about putting things in motion. Besides the obvious physical aspect, there can be quite an emotional side to moving as well. Seemed like a suitable theme for a music production contest.

Most of you would probably join the contest for the fun of it, but it doesn’t hurt to have some nice prizes, right? I am pleased to say there are lots of goodies to be won this time around.

The following list is in no particular order (as winners each get to pick their choice from the prize pot, per the contest rules below).

Contest prizes

• Three downloads of your choice from Wave Alchemy, the sound design outfit responsible for some of the best electronic drum sample libraries around.
• DUNE, Synapse Audio‘s new flagship “differential unison engine” synthesizer instrument for Windows and Mac. A copy of the slightly older yet still venerable and duly popular Hydra multi-model synth is also on offer.
• $500 USD store credit at Soniccouture, the established company behind many unusual & unique sample libraries such as Glass Works, The Skiddaw Stones, Balinese Gamelan, (Xtended) Piano, and the upcoming Ondes Martenot.
• Berlin-based Cableguys contributes a total of 4 prizes from its exciting line of audio plug-ins. Single licenses for Curve, FilterShaper 2 & VolumeShaper 2, plus the complete Cableguys Bundle.
• A two year all-inclusive subscription account at DNR Collaborative, which gives access to the entire product catalog + 2 years worth of new products. On top of that three randomly picked contestants will receive a Transitions Bundle.

Yes, that’s no less than 12 prizes to be won!

Although this is not a sample remix contest I still made sample pack for those who enjoy working with loops. The download includes 24 .wav samples (24bit), both melodic and beats. You can preview & download individual files from the SoundCloud player below, or download the complete pack here (47.9MB RAR archive).

Please make sure to read the contest rules below carefully. Good luck, and have fun!

The contest deadline is set to April 3^rd.

Contest rules

• Compose a song with the following theme: “Moving”.
  There are no specific rules on how to incorporate the theme, be creative.
• Your entry must be written specifically for this contest.
• A free sample pack is available to download for those who enjoy working with samples. Use of these samples is not required. You may process/manipulate the sample(s) in any way you like.
• Upload your entry to SoundCloud and share it to the contest group before April 3, 2011, 11.59pm CET. One entry per contestant allowed.
• Confirm your entry by email (no longer accepting entries)
• In order to be eligible to win, contestants are required to vote for their top 5 within a week after the contest deadline. Contestants will be contacted to submit their votes. Note: you cannot vote for your own entry.
• Winners choose a prize from the prize pool in order of placement (1^st place winner picks first, then 2^nd, etc.). All prizes are granted at the discretion of rekkerd.org. Some prizes may be subject to specific conditions imposed by the sponsor (e.g. NFR licenses).

The terms of this contest are subject to change and may be amended without prior notice.

Contest entries

Listen to the contest entries from the SoundCloud player below.

The results

From a total of 55 submitted entries the top 10 voted tracks are:

1. 3ee – Transit 1983 (score of 57 from 17 votes)
2. Crystal Craft – Inner Me (score of 52 from 15 votes)
3. Noizefield – go far away (score of 45 from 14 votes)
4. _jackie – Magic Wheels (score of 33 from 9 votes)
5. DuncanMackay – Disaster (score of 31 from 11 votes)
6. Nkurence – nori hyvn (score of 27 from 10 votes)
7. Elektronicguitars – relocator (score of 27 from 9 votes)
8. Jonas the plugexpert – poekie (score of 23 from 8 votes)
9. Sion – Analog movement (Original mix) (score of 23 from 7 votes)
10. KlangKind – Moving (score of 22 from 7 votes)

Congratulations to 3ee for winning the contest! Winners will be contacted regarding their prize soon. The three randomly picked winners of the Transitions Bundles from DNR Collaborative are Max Lunau, Pumaman, and Diego G.

Well done everyone, thanks for taking part and hope to see again at the next contest!

Cheers,
Ronnie

Our friends at Wave Alchemy have released a number of free sample packs, which are now available to download directly from rekkerd.org.

Wave Alchemy is an innovative sound design company based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. We specialize in the development of cutting-edge sample libraries which are produced to perfection using a collection of highly sought after vintage and new-age studio equipment.

These freebies are a great taster of their commercial products, so make sure to check the Wave Alchemy website for more high quality royalty free sound libraries.

Wired Electronics

Wired Electronics is the result of an intensive recording session with Wave Alchemy’s semi-modular synth setup! This 100% free sample pack consists of 74 freshly recorded 24-bit analogue drum samples which have been crafted from the ground up using our semi-modular system and treated through a selection of our favourite signal processors!

Wired Electronics

• Kit used: Moog Voyager , Moog CP-251 CV processor , Moog VX-351 , Moog MF-107 , Moog MF-101 , Moog MF-102 , Future Retro XS , Korg MS-20.
• Sound Shaping: Empirical Labs Fatso & Distressor , A-Designs EM-PEQ , Spectra Sonics 610 , Valley People 610 , Thermionic Culture Vulture.

Wired Electronics Downloads: 4528 times

606 Drums

606 Drums by Wave Alchemy serves up 290 drum samples from Roland’s sought-after TR-606 drum machine. The samples included have been lovingly recorded through an API pre-amp with many sounds boasting multiple round robin variations, accent and velocity layers! 606 Drums contains four pre-mapped drum kit patches for use with Kontakt 2, 3, & 4 and Battery 3. Each kit makes extensive use of multiple velocity layers, round robin sample playback techniques and choke groups to create truly expressive sample instruments.

606 Drums

• Driven Kit – Includes 41 TR-606 drum samples which have been recorded and processed through a Thermionic Culture Vulture MV to give a harmonically rich and extremely colourful sound. This kit includes 5 round robin samples per sound.
• Dry Kit – includes a whooping 168 TR-606 drum samples which have been recorded clean through an API 512c pre-amp. This kit has been recorded in 96K, 24-bit and includes 8 round robin samples per sound as well as 3 accent / velocity layers per hit!
• Stereo FX Kit – Includes 41 TR-606 drum samples which have been recorded and abused through a Moog Voyager’s stereo filtering capabilities whilst being controlled by a ton of MoogerFoogers and various other CV gear! This kit sounds almost totally unrecognisable to the true TR-606 sound…
• Warm Kit – includes 40 TR-606 drum samples which have been treated to generous amounts of vintage compression, EQ and saturation from a range of Wave Alchemy’s extensive outboard collection! This kit includes 5 round robin samples per sound.

606 Drums Downloads: 3858 times

Club Kicks 2

Club Kicks 2 serves up 65 speaker shaking kick drum samples from Jomox’s famous AIRBase 99 drum machine. The drum samples included in Club Kicks 2 have been treated with generous amounts of outboard processing and compression, and further harmonically enhanced with a Thermionic Culture Vulture valve distortion box!

Club Kicks 2

• 65 24bit 100% royalty free kick drum samples which have been recorded through an Agrade signal chain including devices such as the Thermionic Culture Vulture, Empirical Labs Distressor and API 512c preamp.

Club Kicks 2 Downloads: 3273 times

Odyssey FX

Odyssey FX provides 70 100% royalty free sound effects samples, glitch hits and weird retro noises from the highly soughtafter ARP Odyssey analogue synthesizer. All sound effects have been beautifully recorded through an API 512c preamp in crystal clear 24bit resolution. Whether you produce dance music, acoustic music or design sound for multimedia, game and film, Odyssey FX delivers a great source of weird and wonderful sound effects and is a great addition to any producer’s tool kit.

Odyssey FX

• 70 24bit 100% royalty free sound effects samples.
• Swishes, sweeps and falls.
• Weird hits and stuttered glitch.
• Retro noises, bleeps and atmospherics inspired by the early Radiophonic Workshop.

Odyssey FX Downloads: 3657 times

Club Kicks

Club Kicks by Wave Alchemy serves up 75 thunderous kick drum samples from Jomox’s famous analogue kick drum module. As with Electrik Drums and Airbase Drums all sounds have been superbly recorded through an API 512c preamp, only this time ALL samples have been enhanced with generous amounts of outboard compression and EQ!
To further this, all 75 samples have then been passed through a Sherman Filterbank distortion unit to add a grittier and more harmonically rich tone! For your convenience we have included both the distorted and predistorted kick drum samples giving you a whooping 150 floor shaking analogue drum hits.

Club Kicks

• 150 24bit 100% royalty free Club Kick sampled from the Jomox MBase II Drum Machine.
• 75 kick drums amply processed through highend compressors and EQs.
• 75 kick drums harmonically enhanced with the Sherman Filterbank filter/distortion unit.
• Kit List: Jomox MBase 11, API 512c preamp, Empirical Labs Distressor EL8, SSL E Series EQ, SSL E Series Compressor, SPL Transient Designer.

Club Kicks Downloads: 3083 times

More information: Wave Alchemy

Loopmasters has announced the release of a free sample pack by Wave Alchemy.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody for their continued support throughout 2010. To show our appreciation we have put together a 100% FREE New Years sample pack!

The free pack consists of 74 freshly recorded analogue drum samples which have been crafted using our semi-modular synth setup and treated through a selection of our favourite signal processors!

Free Wave Alchemy sample pack features

• 74 free samples.
• Kit used: Moog Voyager, Moog CP-251 CV processor, Moog VX-351, Moog MF-107, Moog MF-101, Moog MF-102, Future Retro XS, Korg MS-20.
• Sound Shaping: EL Fatso & Distressor, A-Designs EM-PEQ, Spectra Sonics 610, Valley People 610, Thermionic Culture Vulture.

More information: Loopmasters